Diabetes News Hound

The Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) has identified 10 hot spots in the Unites States that will bear an excessive burden from diabetes in the next 15 years. (more…)

Music legend B.B. King and American Idol runner-up Crystal Bowersox are appearing together in a new OneTouch LifeFirst ad campaign aimed at providing tools and products to help encourage and inspire people living with diabetes to successfully manage their disease. OneTouch, of course, is best known for its blood sugar testing monitors and test strips. (more…)

With the earthquake, tsunami and subsequent devastation in Japan, I thought it would be a good time to revisit a pair of past posts we’ve had on Diabetes News Hound about emergency preparedness. (more…)

Researchers are saying that Benicar, a drug typically used to lower blood pressure, may also help people with Type 2 diabetes stave off kidney damage from the disease for a bit longer (more…)

Last week Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winning reporter David Broder died from complications of diabetes. He was 1 of nearly 11 million Americans age 65 and older with diabetes (more…)

Researchers have coined the term “the Diabetes Belt” to describe 644 counties in mostly15 Southern States that have a significantly higher rate of Type 2 diabetes than the rest of the country (more…)

Last year Diabetes News Hound reported on Jerry Douthett, a Michigan man who said his pet dog, a Jack Russell terrier, saved his life by chewing off part of his infected toe. Douthett had Type 2 diabetes, but didn’t know about it. Now it’s happened again… this time in Oregon. (more…)

Many people take a common type of steroid known as glucocorticoids to combat asthma, nasal polyps, rheumatoid arthritis, irritable bowel syndrome or other problems. However, most don’t know that the steroid can lead to Type 2 diabetes (more…)

Researchers are saying that ultra-tight blood sugar control in Type 2 diabetics considered to be high-risk patients may not necessarily be a good thing (more…)